On a silver platter.

Archaeologists' lives are sometimes as interesting as all those television shows revolving around forensic crime scene investigators. Only, they don't investigate crimes but everyday life from three or four thousand years ago. From the archaeologist's point of view, these tiny plant remains are like being handed prehistoric food on a silver platter. They show us what was served in the lakeside settlements of the Late Stone Age and Bronze Age, or at least some of it. On the left-hand side we can see the original finds, on the right-hand side the modern-day equivalent. The top section contains crab-apples, hazelnuts and strawberries et cetera - all foodstuffs that could be gathered up in the woods. In the bottom section there are cereals such as emmer, einkorn and wheat, and below that again, barley. These were not just growing out in the wild, they were cultivated. We are not just claiming this, evidence has actually been found to prove this. It can be seen in the display case to the far left of you.